Godbolt Compiler Quotes & Sayings

The mark of a writer is to make a story as likely as possible, and I've done my best to deliver authentic atmosphere. — Philip Kerr

The most important thing that ever happens in prayer is letting ourselves be loved by God. "Be still, and know that I am God" (Psalm 46:10). — Brennan Manning

When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west
that cloud field of the sky
to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking. — Zora Neale Hurston

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child? — Lin Yutang

Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons. — Herman Kahn

Don't blame me. That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution. — Haruki Murakami

Whip and coachman and guard, however, in combination, had read — Charles Dickens

Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all. — Honore De Balzac

Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him. — Kahlil Gibran

If the world is an aggregate of relatively independent regions, then any assumption of universal laws is false and a demand for universal norms tyrannical : only brute force (or seductive deception) can then bend the different moralities so that they fit the prescriptions of a single ethical system. And indeed, the idea of universal laws of nature and society arose in connection with a life-and-death battle: the battle that gave Zeus the power over the Titans and all other gods and thus turned his laws into the laws of the universe. — Paul Feyerabend

Survival is not important. What matters is how you survive. — Tom Robbins

A curve of silver hung amid the brighter specks; it looked to me like a curved dagger, pretty but deadly, as if it might slice the sky in two. — Ann Aguirre

All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung. — Megan Whalen Turner

We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq. — Tony Blair

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung. — Josephus Daniels